EMDR Principles to help with Every Day Stress – EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be a powerful tool in helping a client deal with trauma and difficult experiences that they have been through. When someone is engaged with EMDR in therapy they may be taught some of the following techniques to help […]
Loneliness Awareness Week – 10-16 June 2024 – Run by the Marmalade Trust, “Loneliness Awareness Week raises awareness of loneliness and empowers everyone to make connections across the UK and worldwide.” This months theme is random acts of kindness. For ideas on how you can get involved please take a look at their website. They […]
The Benefits of Couples Therapy – All couples will face challenges within their relationship. The challenges may come from one or other of the couple or may be due to difficulties that are outside of the relationship, that are putting pressure on it. The aim of couples therapy is to help the couple address and […]
Using CBT ideas in daily life – CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It is an approach to counselling that encourages you to explore how your thoughts and beliefs effect you feelings and actions and then through changing those thoughts and beliefs you can manage the difficulties you face differently. The charity Mind has a […]
Face to Face Counselling and Supervision West Midlands – Following the pandemic, through necessity, much counselling and Supervision moved to online platforms and the telephone. It has over the past few years become the norm for sessions to be held online. Working online is indeed a convenient and useful option. It saves travel time, it […]
Resting for your mental health – Quick Tips – part of Paul Carter’s Quick Tips series we look at a variety of areas and consider different things that you can do to implement change straight away. Today we are looking at rest. We live in a fast paced world, everything is instant and 24/7, we […]
Better Sleep for Better Mental Health – Quick Tips – part of Paul Carter’s Quick Tips series we look at a variety of areas and consider three things that you can do to implement change straight away. Today we are looking at sleep. We spend about a third of our lives asleep. Sleep is essential […]
Reducing your Social Media Use – Quick Tips – part of Paul Carter’s Quick Tips series, we look at a variety of areas and consider things that you can do to implement change straight away. Today we are looking at reducing your Social Media use. Our phones are now an extension of ourselves, and much of […]
Spring Cleaning – Boost your mental health – Spring is here! It is the time of year when the weather starts to improve and we start to come out of the hibernation or winter. Often at this time of the year we think about spring cleaning and tidying up. Evidence suggests that having a clean […]
Stress Awareness Month – April 2024 – Stress Awareness Month is held every year in the month of April. The theme this year is “Little By Little, A Little Becomes A Lot”. This theme “highlights the transformative impact of consistent, small positive actions on over-all wellbeing.” The Stress Management Society has lots of resources and […]
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